A story in the New York Post claimed that 20 homeless veterans were thrown out of hotels New York’s uproar to make room for migrants, and later made headlines on Fox News, turned out to be a lie.
Without fact-checking the story or reaching out to the accused hotels for comment, Fox News’ Laura Ingraham highlighted it with a chorale reading “New York City Puts Illegals Ahead of Veterans,” while Republicans raged on Biden , Together nikki haley Call it “liberal madness at work”.
However, reporting by local outlet The Mid-Hudson News Not only were holes found in the Post’s story, but what appears to be outright fraud, with homeless men telling the Hudson Valley paper that they were given food and money to pose as veterans and claim they were staying at the Crossroads Hotel were displaced by migrants. New York City, New York.
The men said they were paid by Sharon Toney-Finch, CEO of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation. State Assemblyman Jonathan Jacobson of Newburgh said Friday that he allegedly forged credit card receipts to show that the hotel had accepted payments from YIT.
The Post has since updated its original story with the note: “The CEO of this nonprofit has been accused of misrepresenting veterans who emigrated to be immigrants.”
“The recent arrival of asylum seekers in the city of Newburgh has caused enough disruption without the additional outcry generated by Tonya-Finch’s lies. Before her hypocrisy was exposed, Assemblymember Brian Maher, Senator Rob Rollison, and Senator Bill Weber As Republican legislators went on to fan the flames of xenophobia by recklessly exaggerating the Tony-Finch lie on Fox News and a range of other media outlets,” Jacobson said.
Maher, who originally pitched the story to the Post, told The Times Union of the Hudson Valley that he personally called Tony-Finch, who acknowledged that the story was false. He joined Jacobson in asking State Attorney General Letitia James to investigate him and his foundation.
At 2 p.m. ET on Friday, Fox News correspondent Nate Foy reported, “We are now looking into new reports that a veteran attorney misled lawmakers and media outlets about the story and that there may be some Homeless men may have been hired to pose as veterans. We have reached out to the organization for a statement but have not yet received a response.
